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La Movie Boeuf

La Movie Boeuf is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): David N. Butterworth.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/4
The Vast of Night (2019) David N. Butterworth Style becomes substance in this captivating throwback to those classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
Posted Oct 25, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020) David N. Butterworth A meditative yet muddled Canadian horror yarn that quickly unwinds if you look at it too closely.
Posted Oct 02, 2020  Edit critic review
4/4
Marriage Story (2019) David N. Butterworth Writer/director Baumbach coaxes the very best out of his players. "This is why I love Scarlett and Adam..."
Posted Jul 27, 2020  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Military Wives (2019) David N. Butterworth Painfully formulaic of its "crowd pleasing" ilk.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Judy & Punch (2019) David N. Butterworth A canny debut from Ms. Foulkes, with surprisingly few missteps.
Posted May 10, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
Cremaster 4 (1995) David N. Butterworth A repetitive and not altogether successful entry in the mind 'n' bum numbing "Cremaster" series.
Posted Apr 30, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Cremaster 5 (1998) David N. Butterworth Barney climbs the stage of the Budapest opera house while underwater androgynous faeries attend to the nether regions of a differentiated being in a finale that "defers definitive conclusion."
Posted Apr 30, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Cremaster 2 (1999) David N. Butterworth The only film in recent memory in which serial killer Gary Gilmore attempts to conjoin two Ford Mustangs with petroleum jelly.
Posted Apr 30, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Cremaster 1 (1996) David N. Butterworth Barney explores the creation of form in a universe that is by turns jaw-dropping, laughable, head-scratching, infuriating... but never less than unique.
Posted Apr 30, 2020  Edit critic review
1.5/4
She's Allergic to Cats (2016) David N. Butterworth Michael Reich's uber-experimental, semi-autobiographical fantasy has a propensity for showing us in close-up things we'd rather not see, not even in long-shot.
Posted Apr 22, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
Images (1972) David N. Butterworth Committed contributions from York (acting), Zsigmond (photography), Williams (score), and Yamash'ta (sound design) amount to little more than a jangling jumble of hyperbolic head games.
Posted Mar 28, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Hard to Be a God (2013) David N. Butterworth Aleksei German's immersive cinematic vision is like the mucky, muddy parts of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" scrutinized, lionized, and revitalized to the nth degree -- call it The Knights Who Say "Nyet!"
Posted Feb 23, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Just Mercy (2019) David N. Butterworth A competent, if predictable, treatment of Bryan Stevenson's bestselling book.
Posted Feb 23, 2020  Edit critic review
2/4
Hustlers (2019) David N. Butterworth Everything about "Hustlers" feels like a hustle.
Posted Feb 06, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
Little Women (2019) David N. Butterworth In Greta Gerwig's fine retelling of Louisa May Alcott's revered classic, the giddy gaggle that is the mad March clan are an easy lot to love.
Posted Jan 18, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2003) David N. Butterworth More of the same, including Isabella Rossellini, who plays someone called Madame Moitessier (Character Number 61).
Posted Jan 05, 2020  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part 3: From Sark to Finish (2003) David N. Butterworth Part 3 of Peter Greenaway's typically-excessive Tulse trilogy makes a strong case for keeping everything intact. Greenaway aficionados are unlikely to be put off by a piddly 6-hour running time, after all.
Posted Jan 05, 2020  Edit critic review
3/4
All Is Bright (2013) David N. Butterworth The Two Pauls -- Giamatti and Rudd -- shine in another downbeat ode to humanity from director Phil Morrison ("Junebug").
Posted Jan 04, 2020  Edit critic review
4/4
The Dawn Wall (2017) David N. Butterworth The best mountaineering film (and then some) since Joe Simpson and Simon Yates first touched the void in 2004. Absolutely mesmerizing.
Posted Nov 16, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Joker (2019) David N. Butterworth It's undeniably bleak to watch, but Phoenix demands our attention... and gets it.
Posted Oct 18, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
78/52 (2017) David N. Butterworth When it sticks to its guns, "78/52" is fascinating. But Alexandre O. Philippe's inconsistent documentary needs much more cut-by-cut critique, and much less rah-rah repetition.
Posted Oct 09, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Victoria (2015) David N. Butterworth "One City. One Night. One Take." One Wow.
Posted Oct 09, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Road Movie (2016) David N. Butterworth A spectacular dash-cam compilation of head-ons, side-swipes, t-bones, fishtails, jackknives, roll-overs, and other moving violations unfolding daily (heaven forbid!) on Russian roads.
Posted Sep 24, 2019  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Running With the Devil (2019) David N. Butterworth "It's Nic Cage. How bad could it be?"
Posted Sep 24, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) David N. Butterworth "Slaughterhouse Rulez" is just not in the same league as those early Wright/Pegg/Frost collaborations (of which this is not one).
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
Twentynine Palms (2003) David N. Butterworth "It's nothing sex in a movie about nothing people doing nothing in the middle of nowhere for no reason." Nicely put, Joshua Tanzer (offoffoff.com).
Posted Aug 26, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
The Cure: Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park (2019) David N. Butterworth It's Friday and I'm in love!
Posted Aug 17, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
The Outsider (2019) David N. Butterworth Most B-movies disappear without a trace. Timothy Woodward Jr.'s "The Outsider" is more likely to disappear *with* one.
Posted Jun 09, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
9 Songs (2004) David N. Butterworth Dear Mr. Winterbottom. Intercutting unsimulated sex scenes with concert footage does not a movie make. Love, David B.
Posted Jun 09, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) David N. Butterworth Simply put, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is not Just Another Superhero Movie. It's a Marvel.
Posted Jun 09, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Headhunters (2011) David N. Butterworth A fun and fast-paced Scandinavian thriller with a wicked sense of humor.
Posted Jun 04, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018) David N. Butterworth Bi Gan's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a neo-noir mystery broken into a jigsaw puzzle, wrapped in a conundrum, and hidden in a Chinese box.
Posted Jun 04, 2019  Edit critic review
4/4
Booksmart (2019) David N. Butterworth Pretty much flawless, and that's saying something given the potential for something significantly less than that.
Posted May 18, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Tater Tot & Patton (2017) David N. Butterworth "Tater Tot & Patton" is a sublime character-driven piece, lovely to look at and excellently played (by Jessica Rothe and Bates Wilder)
Posted May 11, 2019  Edit critic review
2/4
The Favourite (2018) David N. Butterworth Terrific turns from a talented triumvirate -- Colman, Weisz, and Stone -- cannot compensate for "The Favourite"'s calculated archness (and ickiness).
Posted Apr 19, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Possum (2018) David N. Butterworth Chilling genre fare that crawls its way beneath your skin like dirt under badly-bitten fingernails.
Posted Apr 15, 2019  Edit critic review
3/4
Babylon (1980) David N. Butterworth "Babylon" burns with an energy and candid intensity rarely seen in mainstream movies.
Posted Mar 21, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) David N. Butterworth Unapologetically denuded of depth, "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s focus is clearly on the music, not what made Mercury tick. And this despite Malek's superhuman efforts to make Queen's charismatic frontman real and alive.
Posted Feb 24, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Hotel Artemis (2018) David N. Butterworth The film is idiotically entertaining from start to finish, with Foster's adorably wacky performance stealing the show.
Posted Feb 02, 2019  Edit critic review
2.5/4
mother! (2017) David N. Butterworth You'll either love it or hate it... which is an odd thing to say since I neither loved it nor hated it, finding it fascinating and self-indulgent almost simultaneously.
Posted Dec 04, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
Overboard (2018) David N. Butterworth The charisma of our two leads helps elevate this gender-reversal redo of the Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell "classic." It left a pretty big grin on my face, that's for sure.
Posted Dec 04, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Alpha (2018) David N. Butterworth "Alpha" proves that you can't really beat a good old boy-and-his-dog/wolf/wolf dog saga.
Posted Nov 27, 2018  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Girls Trip (2017) David N. Butterworth It's just too bad that a film purporting to espouse female empowerment has to resort to simulated fellatio, public urination, and full-frontal male nudity in order to get its biggest laughs.
Posted Nov 25, 2018  Edit critic review
2/4
Ocean's 8 (2018) David N. Butterworth It wasn't a total waste of an evening. mind you -- I got frozen custard with *two* toppings afterwards!
Posted Nov 25, 2018  Edit critic review
2/4
A Little Something for Your Birthday (2017) David N. Butterworth In Susan Walters' sudsy screenplay, Sharon Stone is subjected to stock romantic situations time and time again, dragged along by Walters' insipid and uninspired direction.
Posted Nov 25, 2018  Edit critic review
2/4
Wild Nights With Emily (2018) David N. Butterworth Maybe "Wild Nights with Emily" is one of those films I'll revisit, oh, ten, fifteen years from now and realize I Missed the Boat -- Maybe --
Posted Nov 25, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
The Dinner (2013) David N. Butterworth This Dutch adaptation of Herman Koch's unsettling bestseller is finely acted and confidently directed, laying the solid groundwork for both an Italian and a U.S. version to come.
Posted Nov 19, 2018  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Suspiria (2018) David N. Butterworth It took some chutzpah to remake Dario Argento's seminal '77 shocker, but somehow -- despite its questionable length, stodgy pacing, and multitudinous plot threads -- Luca Guadagnino manages to pull the whole thing off.
Posted Nov 09, 2018  Edit critic review
3/4
A Star Is Born (2018) David N. Butterworth A thoroughly entertaining redo, with excellent work by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (behind the camera as well as in front of it).
Posted Oct 26, 2018  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Private Life (2018) David N. Butterworth Tamara Jenkins needs to make more movies. Every time she does, something special happens.
Posted Oct 10, 2018  Edit critic review
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